About SustainGRC
Governance that holds up.
SustainGRC is an AI-native governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform for integrated risk management, sustainability and operational resilience. It helps organisations manage enterprise and cyber risk, run internal audit, test controls, govern AI, withstand disruption and report on sustainability — giving boards evidence that holds up, all on one system of record.
Talk To Us- Founded
- London, 2022
- Built as
- One system of record
- Certified
- ISO 27001:2022 · Cyber Essentials+
- Principle
- AI proposes, humans confirm
Our Purpose
Every organisation runs two versions of itself — the one that exists, and the one on paper.
For financial data, a century of controls, lineage and evidence keeps the two aligned, and a board can trust what it is handed. For everything else — emissions, risk, the control said to be operating, the supplier said to be assured — that reconciliation never happened. The data can be asserted, but not proven. We exist to close that gap: to give non-financial data the means to be re-walked, checked and believed by someone who wasn't in the room.
Assertion is priced as risk.
Evidence is priced as trust.
Leadership
Built by experts who've been in your shoes
SustainGRC was founded in London in 2022 by Dr Ahmed Shawky, after two decades in Big Four assurance, internal audit and board-level governance. As a risk management professional and Chief Audit Executive, his job was to decide whether a number could be trusted — and to keep asking one question of everything: how do you know?
He kept finding that financial data could answer it and non-financial data could not. So he studied why. His doctorate examined why sustainability reporting and disclosure so often fails to prevent greenwashing, drawing on in-depth interviews with board members, professionals and assurance providers across several countries. The finding was consistent: the governance beneath non-financial data is poorly defined, boards underestimate what assurance requires, and the data was never built to be believed.
SustainGRC is the answer he built — the infrastructure he wished he had in every audit committee he sat in, holding non-financial data to the standard the profession has always applied to money.
Our Approach
One platform, built on a single governed data model — not a set of tools stitched together. Collect once; report everywhere.
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One governed source of truth
Every figure enters once and carries its owner, timestamp, lineage and evidence from the moment it lands. Report to every framework, board and regulator without re-keying.
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Validated at entry, not at reporting season
Quality and integrity are scored the moment data arrives, not scrambled for at year-end. Every record is audit-ready by default.
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AI proposes, humans confirm, the system records both
AI carries the load; it never carries the judgement. It never computes a final score or advances a decision on its own — and every proposal and every human decision is recorded.
We believe in Our Values
5principles
we work byDoing the right thing
We prioritize ethical behaviour and integrity.
Innovating for a better tomorrow
We are committed to innovation as a means of driving positive change.
Aiming high
We set ambitious goals and push the boundaries of what's possible.
Making a positive impact
Environmental and social responsibility is core to our identity.
Respecting each other
We value diversity and foster an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and valued.
The standard we hold
We hold non-financial data to the standardthe profession has always applied to money— and never, until now, to anything else.
When your data can withstand scrutiny, so can the decisions you build on it.
Our Team
Built by experts who've been in your shoes
Career
Work on things that have to hold up.
We are the intelligence infrastructure behind the record boards, auditors and regulators rely on — across sustainability, risk and audit, cyber and resilience, board governance and AI governance.
Senior Backend & Platform Engineer
AI Engineer
Solutions Consultant (Pre-Sales)
Built to withstand.Orchestrated to adapt.
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